Our arugula, beets and daikon radishes (winter crop) are doing well also. We've harvested a couple bunches of the arugula but the beets and radishes won't be harvested for a while. We also planted carrots, lettuce and spinach, all of which died after about five-days germination outside despite constant watering. And yet, I wasn't surprised when it didn't work out.
Our chickens are coming into their prime and should hopefully be laying eggs soon. In fact, last night I had a dream that they had lain four light brown eggs. I also dreamt, the night prior, about deep chocolate brown mushrooms that I found (in the dream) in Forest Park... Not all dreams come true but hopefully our chickens will be laying soon. You can see that their wattles are getting lovely and red, a sign that they'll be laying soon.
Delaware White (rare breed)
Gold Laced Wyandotte
Salmon Faverolles
Black Australorp
Buff Orpington
And here perfectly illustrates the salmon faverolles feathery five-toed feet.
And here is the lovely Orson cat. Whenever I photograph him outside he manages to look obscenely pissed.
BALTIMORE
This weekend Joel and I went to Baltimore to see our friend Patty's wedding. Patty was the wonderful woman who introduced Joel and I. :0) Unfortunately my photos from this trip are few because we left the battery charger at home but it was good regardless.
We got in to BWI a little before midnight on friday then rented a car and drove down to DC (45 minutes) and stayed with Joel's old college friend and his girlfriend. They had two cats, one of which was a bouncy little three month old cat. The other cat was an older very shy cat. The next day (still in DC) we were planning on going to the National Book Festival but it was raining so we decided not to. We ended up going to the Natl. Zoo which happened to be two blocks from our friends' house, and since it is a Smithsonian it was free. From there I took the train to Baltimore and Joel stayed in DC a while longer. Patty picked me up from Penn station where this statue is placed:
by Jonathan Barofsky
Then once Patty had picked me up we went to her bachelorette tea party. It was great to see old friends and have tea with them. Having tea together was a favourite past time of ours. We would sit on the back porch of their Bolton Hill rowhouse and drink blueberry or rooibos tea from finely painted china cups on balmy summer nights, lit only by candles placed at regular intervals on the porch railing. These are the wonderful memories I've come away with from my MICA years.
While we were in Baltimore we stayed with one of Joel's old coworkers who happened to be house/cat sitting where we were hoping to stay. They had three cats, though one was always in the basement or in an upper room (may as well give it away at that point, I think). Our favourite was Tolstoy. He was a very friendly, sausage shaped cat with no neck. When we first got there the power had gone out but he took to us straight away. I climbed into bed and Tolstoy followed suit and laid down on my stomach. When Joel came to bed Tolstoy snuggled in between the two of us. He's the kind of cat that I dream about.
Yukos was the other cat who could roam where he wanted. He was pretty skittish and didn't really warm up to us while we were there.
The next day we went to the wedding (sunday) but that wasn't until three so we stopped over at the Book Thing -- a free book "warehouse" -- and put together a nice 40 lb., box of books. They were pretty sparse but its because a couple people took hundreds of books earlier that day or the day before (they were public school teachers, so I was okay with it). Once we had our box almost overflowing we left and drove up to Middle River where the wedding was being held. The wedding was held outside with the backdrop of Back River (really, is that the name?). It was a beautiful combination of casual and elegant, traditional and personal. Patty wore a 19th century cotton slip and veil while Chad (her new husband) wore a dark brown suit. You'll just have to take my word for it because after taking photos of Patty with her mom and sister and then the flower girls/ring bearer my camera batteries died. Boo.
This is our dear friend Sarah with her brand new (three months old) baby, Violet.
And this is Violet with Cadence (her father is a drummer) another girl from our church.
Joel at the wedding.
They had lots of musicians at the wedding singing throughout the ceremony and before dinner. Caleb Stine played solo and also sang with Patty and another lady by name of Cathy in the Sacred Harp tradition. It was all very wonderful, I wish them luck on this brand new journey together!
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